Hair-pin.



No. 785,732. PATENTED MAR. 28, 1905.

' G. A. HENDERSON.

HAIR PIN.

APPLICATION FILED 00127, 1904.

UNITED STATES Patented March 28, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

HAIR-PIN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 785,? 32, dated March 28, 1905.

Application filed October 27, 1904:. Serial No. 230,226.

To all whom it may concern:

Be itlinown that I, GEORGE A. HENDERSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ohicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented new and useful Improvements in Hair-Pins,,of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide a hair-pin with an auxiliary part or clasp at the bend of the pin for the purpose of engaging and holding any loose hairs that may not be held by the hair-pin proper.

In the accompanying drawings several forms of the invention are shown, Figures 1, 8, 4, and 5 being side views of different forms. Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2 2 of 'Fig. 1.

The preferable form is that shown in Fig. 1.

In all the forms,A indicates the doubled hairpin proper.

B is a clasp hinged at 5 to the hair-pin and has spring-lips 6 which snap over the hairpin to hold the parts together. The clasp B is preferably a piece of wire or metal curved to follow the contour of the bend of the hairpin on the outer or rear side or surface thereof.

In the form shown in'Fig. 3 a detent Z) at the free end of the clasp B engages in a notch a, made in the body of the hair-pin.

In Fig. I the spring-clasp is shown at B riveted at the middle, as at c, to the bend of the pin. In the use of this form the loose hair is retained by being drawn in between the body of the pin and the clasp B, the parts acting as a clip.

In the form shown in Fig. 5 the action is similar to that shown Fig. 4, with a difl'erence that in the form shown in Fig. 5 the clasp B is riveted at its end, as at c, to the body of the pin.

The invention is not limited to the forms shown, since the auxiliary clasp may be secured to the hair-pin in various other ways.

In use the hair-pin is inserted in the usual manner, and by swinging the clasp shown in Figs. 1 and 3 the loose hair can be gathered thereunder and held by closing the clasp. In the forms shown in Figs. 4 and 5 the loose hairs are drawn under the clasp, as referred to above.

The clasp in all the forms shown is secured to the outer side of the pin and is openable on that side as distinguished from the inner side or space between the branches of the pin, so that hair can be caught and held in the clasp after the pin is inserted.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A hair-pin having at its rear bend a clasp bent to substantially the same contour as the said bend, to fit around the outer side thereof, said clasp being attached to the outer side of pin and openable to allow hair to be placed between the clasp and the pin, on the outer side of the latter.

2. A hair-pin having at its rear bend a clasp hinged at one end to the pin and extending around outside said bend, and means to hold the clasp closed.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEORGE A. HENDERSON.

Witnesses:

WM. J. RoBINsoN, SIGNA FELTSKOG. 

